P13.A - Late Production

[JayBee]

Is that the thing that was meant to use coal as a fuel?

The model looks terrific, no matter what fuel it used. 

I think it was the Focke Wulf Treibelflugel that was to be powered by powdered coal.

Deffinately not environmentally friendly. 

[Rick Lowe]

Is that the thing that was meant to use coal as a fuel?

The model looks terrific, no matter what fuel it used. 

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That was what I heard.

Agree it looks great.

[kitbasher]

Cool.  Top notch model, another mad 'bag of a fag packet hammered at the 1944 Oktoberfest' design.  Welcome to the forum 

Run on coal?  Air to air refuelling would have been an interesting exercise (had it existed in the Luftwaffe, of course)!

As a kid I acquired a second hand copy of a book called 'The Dumpy Book of Aircraft'.  Reminiscent of the Observers book.  Small chunky paperback in a green cover, long lost but wish I still had it and IIRC it got a namecheck elsewhere on the forum recently.

Well, there were plenty of mad 50s designs in there and I recall a French design - Payen? - that looked a lot like this beast.  Mind you, so did the Gloster P.275.  All three wouldn't look out of place in a Star Wars fillum.

[NARSES2]

Yup powdered/granulated coal was the proposed fuel. Would probably have been Lignite (brown coal)

The Wikipedia article on the P.13 gives a neat explanation of how it would have "worked". for those interested.

Note : I've amended a couple of my previous posts because being the (very naughty word) that I am I somehow managed to confuse the P.13 with the B&V 607. No idea how, but I've deleted those comments so as to avoid confusion and the spread of miss-information with people looking for a kit that doesn't exist.  Apologies

[PR19_Kit]

The Wikipedia article on the P.13 gives a neat explanation of how it would have "worked". for those interested.

Fascinating, who'd have thought that it would work? Thanks for the link Chris. 

[Rheged]

Kitbasher, I've still got the Dumpy book of Aircraft (mid 1950's??) Looking at it, the Payen definitely gives pause for thought.

As to the L13, I had a go at whiffwords to show how Avro took it on post WW2, as the Avro Abergavenny, with little success. If anyone wishes to annex my orphan backstory and use it with their own model, please feel free!

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